Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/09/08/13:20:41
Sorry. I'm really not the idiot I appear to be :-)
I meant:
mkdir("test");
chdir("test");
rmdir("../test");
on my second example.
- John
>From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>CC: John William <jw2357 AT hotmail DOT com>
>Subject: Re: 1.3.2 rmdir fails if CWD is in the directory to be deleted?
>Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 11:45:32 +0200
>
>On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 01:01:37AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 04:45:24AM +0000, John William wrote:
> > >I just installed Cygwin and am having the following problem with
>rmdir() --
> > >it fails if the CWD is set to the directory to be deleted.
> > >
> > >main()
> > >{
> > > mkdir("test");
> > > rmdir("test"); <-- succeeds
> > >
> > > mkdir("test");
> > > chdir("test");
> > > rmdir("test"); <-- fails
> > >}
>
>BTW, the above can't work on _any_ system. After creating a dir `test'
>and then chdir'ing into that directory, it's very unlikely that there's
>another subdirectory `test' in `test'...
>
>Corinna
>
> > >
> > >This is different than standard UN*X. It appears to me that POSIX only
> > >requires that the directory be empty, it doesn't say that the CWD can't
>be
> > >set to the directory to be deleted.
> > >
> > >Is this a known issue? It is causing problems with some programs I'm
>trying
> > >to compile (they work fine under RH Linux, DJGPP and FreeBSD). Please
>e-mail
> > >any reponses, as I am not subscribed to the mailing list. Thanks!
> >
> > Welcome to Windows. If Windows can't delete a directory while it is the
> > current directory of some process then there is no way that Cygwin can
> > do this either.
> >
> > The Single Unix Specification does seem to imply that deleting the
>current
> > working directory should succeed but there are some UNIX systems out
>there
> > that don't adhere to this. For instance, I just tried this on IRIX 5.3
> > and it failed to rmdir a directory if I was cd'ed to it.
> >
> > cgf
> >
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>--
>Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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>Red Hat, Inc.
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